Kindling Roads

I left the porch light on for you long after the road

went cold

counted every mile in coffee cups and stories that I never told

the map you drew is faded now

the ink ran through the rain

but I can still hear your laughter

like a freight train down the lane

I packed my father's old guitar and a letter I can't send

every town looks like a memory

of where we should have been

but the dawn keeps coming gentle

and the river still runs wide

there's a stubborn kind of mercy

in the way the world abides

so I'll carry what I cannot keep

and I'll sing it til my voice gives in

every road that took me far from home is the road that

brings me back again

oh, take me home,

take me whole through the dust and the gold I have lost

what I love but I'm still here,

still here

oh, the morning will rise with a light in its eyes and

we'll sing 'til the dark disappears

I have buried what I had to bury underneath an old oak

tree

and I sang the only hymn I knew 'til the wind sang

back to me

there's a candle in the kitchen window and a stew upon the

stove

and a love that learned to wait for me down a long

and crooked

road oh, take me home,

take me whole through the dust and the gold I have lost

what I love but I'm still here,

still here

oh, the morning will rise with a light in its eyes and

we'll sing 'til the dark disappears

if the road is all I'm given

let the road become my prayer

every step a little kinder every breath a little rarer

oh, take me home,

take me whole through the dust and the gold I have lost

what I love but I'm still here,

still here oh, the morning will rise with a light in its

eyes and we'll sing 'til the dark disappears

and we'll sing 'til the dark disappears

(hummmm) still here, still here (hummmm)